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We recently installed our Quatreau Tap in The Avenue Cookery School in London, a school noted for its variety of culinary courses from bread baking to knife skills, kids weekend cooking classes to corporate entertaining and bespoke classes. Additionally, their kitchen is hired for product launches, photo-shoots and filming.

Quatreau is firmly placed at the center of this busy kitchen with impressive facilities, and thanks to its four functions, convenient touchscreen and delivery of RODI pure water, Quatreau immediately become indispensable, as Chef and Teacher Richard Horsford explains:

“As a fast-paced cookery school, The Quatreau Tap has made a real difference to our day-to-day running of the school. The purity of the water is perfect for allowing the flavors of food to shine, while the Boiling function is great for making teas and coffees for our students without having to boil endless kettles! From blanching veg to making ice-cold sparkling drinks, our Quatreau is the icing on the cake for our busy cookery school.” – Richard Horsford, Chef and Teacher.

If you’d like to install our award winning, multi-functional Quatreau Tap in your kitchen – whether it’s a family home, busy office or commercial kitchen – we’d love to discuss your requirements. Call us 941-315-5215 or email and our customer service team will help with your inquiry.

Most people will not consume drinking water that outwardly looks, smells, or tastes bad. We know instinctively that contaminated water can make us sick.

However, modern water treatment is designed to identify and remove only a limited number of contaminants. Evidence continues to prove that we are getting more than we bargained for in the water we drink, cook, and wash with. Over the last decade, a growing number look to go beyond “legally safe” municipal water standards to protect themselves, their families, and pets.

Legally safe water does not mean pure. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets maximum allowable levels for only 91 out of thousands of contaminants in the Safe Drinking Water Act. At the same time, consumers are subjected to constant media reports about the latest harmful chemical toxins, drugs, and carcinogens being found regularly through tests of our legally safe municipal water.

In response, many consumers turn to bottled water or inexpensive filtration units such as water pitchers and units that clip to water faucets. While these are a step in the right direction, they are not capable of eliminating many of the chemicals and water-borne diseases in question.

OK, you go to the grocery store and have a choice to buy a chicken loaded with antibiotics and steroids or a free range raised chicken…one is legally safe and the other is totally safe…which one do you cook for your family? Your car needs new tires and you have a choice of retreaded used tires or new steel belted radials…one is legally safe and the other is totally safe…which ones do you ride your family on?

The above comparison is easily understood by you and majority of Consumers…and similarly applies in comparison to tap water vs. purified water. “The Clean Water Act regulates 91 contaminants…if tap water contains less than the Maximum Contaminate Levels of Acceptance (MCL) of each of these 91 contaminates, your water is legally safe. The EPA is looking at 7500 other contaminates not regulated but known to be in tap water and only considering regulating 104 more, hence tap water is not totally safe by standards…otherwise, why would they be looking to regulate more contaminates. Reports don’t reveal all. “Most Americans probably think they have a good idea of what’s being detected in their water. Federal law requires water providers to distribute annual “consumer confidence reports” that reveal levels of regulated contaminants. Providers are not, however, required to tell people if they find a contaminant that is not on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency list. And there are no pharmaceuticals on the EPA list.” Now let’s consider recycled water referred to as Toilet To Tap…which contains even more than the 7500 contaminates found in tap water, yet politicos are allowing this (more than just the “ick factor”) to occur…remember, they are advertising to their public that your water is “safe” meaning “legally” because only 91 contaminates are regulated.

Any water treatment professional is familiar with the many health risks related to consuming unpurified water. What many people, even in the water industry, do not yet know is that tap water can interfere with the medications doctors prescribe.

Many prescription vials carry small brightly colored stickers that say “Take on an empty stomach” or “Do not take with dairy products or antacids.” The pharmacist places these stickers on the vial because the components of food, milk or antacids will inhibit the absorption of the medicine and render it partially or totally inactive. These same components are found in tap water and can render some medication inactive. Antibiotics, specifically tetracycline, norflaxin and ciprofloxacin can be affected in this way.

In the current issue of Green Parent Magazine we explain why there are no acceptable levels of contaminants in the water your children drink.

Evidence supports the role of heavy metals in causing autism, PDD and ADHD. These children often have biochemical impairments that put them at greater risk for damage caused by heavy metal accumulation.

In 2016 Harvard University published a study that more than six million people in the US drink and use water that is contaminated with heavy metals and deadly toxins. Harvard warns the figures are likely woeful underestimates, since government data does not account for a third of the country – and therefore omits around 100 million people.

In fact, tap water contains a myriad of impurities including chemicals, pesticides, heavy metals, hormones and medications. Bottled water is damaging to the environment and still contains impurities. Luckily, there is a solution to safe hydration – The Quatreau Tap.

Our RODI (reverse osmosis with de-ionisation) tap water purifier fits under your kitchen sink and designed specifically for treating tap water, removing 99.99% of organic and inorganic impurities, ensuring a safe source of drinking water for your family.

Do you want your children to avoid toxins and impurities? Do your children find tap water unpalatable? Quatreau Tap is the answer. With Quatreau Tap your children will enjoy the taste of pure h20 and with the purest instant sparkling water they will enjoy creating their own alternatives to unhealthy soda. Check out our blog for our favorite sparkling water recipes.

I’m sure you may have already heard, as news travels faster than contaminated water, more than six million people in the US drink and use water that is contaminated with deadly toxins according to a Harvard University study. Life-threatening concentrations of a carcinogenic man-made chemical – normally used to fight fires, insulate pipes, and stain-proof furniture has been found in public water tanks across America. This does not include Chromium-6, the cancer-causing chemical best known for its role in the Erin Brockovich story, which has been found at higher-than-recommended levels in the tap water supplying two-thirds of all Americans, according to a report from the Environmental Working Group, which analyzed data from the Environmental Protection Agency.

When it comes to pharmaceuticals in the water supply, both drug industry, and water treatment professionals say traces are so small they probably pose no public health risk. Yet they also admit that testing has begun so recently that no one really knows the long-term effects.

“There’s no doubt about it, pharmaceuticals are being detected in the environment and there is genuine concern that these compounds, in the small concentrations that they’re at, could be causing impacts to human health or to aquatic organisms,” noted Mary Buzby, director of environmental technology for Merck.